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title: "BIP39 Word #2000: wheat — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/wheat/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #2000 11111001111 

# wheat — BIP39 word #2000

"**wheat**" is word #2000 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [what](/bip39-word/what/) and [wheel](/bip39-word/wheel/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11111001111`, decimal index 1999\. 

/wiːt/  · _noun:_ a cereal plant whose grain is ground to make flour 

[Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): пшеница 

## Binary Representation

Nine 1-bits and two 0-bits; 55 of the 2048 indexes have exactly nine 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

[ketchup](/bip39-word/ketchup/)[rigid](/bip39-word/rigid/)[supreme](/bip39-word/supreme/)[try](/bip39-word/try/)[vehicle](/bip39-word/vehicle/)[worth](/bip39-word/worth/)[winner](/bip39-word/winner/)[wedding](/bip39-word/wedding/)[west](/bip39-word/west/)[whale](/bip39-word/whale/)[what](/bip39-word/what/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x7CF

4-Letter Prefix

whea

## About "wheat" in BIP39

- "wheat" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"whea"**, already identify it, because **"whe"** also begins [wheel](/bip39-word/wheel/), [when](/bip39-word/when/) and [where](/bip39-word/where/).

## Word #2000 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) zkumavka 

[French](/french/) vexer 

[Italian](/italian/) vigneto 

[Japanese](/japanese/) りれき 

[Korean](/korean/) 화면 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) vestido 

[Spanish](/spanish/) vídeo 

[Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 駁 

[Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 驳 

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 One BIP39 word differs from "wheat" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

[what](/bip39-word/what/) 

Read aloud, "wheat" /wiːt/ is one sound away from these 6 words: 

[meat /miːt/](/bip39-word/meat/)[seat /siːt/](/bip39-word/seat/)[sweet /swiːt/](/bip39-word/sweet/)[wait /weɪt/](/bip39-word/wait/)[wet /wɛt/](/bip39-word/wet/)[wheel /wiːl/](/bip39-word/wheel/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "whe":

[wheel](/bip39-word/wheel/)[when](/bip39-word/when/)[where](/bip39-word/where/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "W"

[ #1996 west ](/bip39-word/west/)[ #1997 wet ](/bip39-word/wet/)[ #1998 whale ](/bip39-word/whale/)[ #1999 what ](/bip39-word/what/)[ #2001 wheel ](/bip39-word/wheel/)[ #2002 when ](/bip39-word/when/)[ #2003 where ](/bip39-word/where/)[ #2004 whip ](/bip39-word/whip/) 

[View all words starting with "W" ](/bip39-words/w/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [How to Encrypt a Seed Phrase: AES, XOR and Steganography](/seed-phrase-encrypting-with-aes-xor-and-steganography/)
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